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immediate real-time

immediate real-time adjective: of a system, processing and transmitting data instantly but with negligible, subsecond latency (usually in milliseconds).

Adjective

immediate real-time (not comparable)

  1. Of a system, processing and transmitting data instantly but with negligible, subsecond latency (usually in milliseconds).
    • Multimedia applications are used on the average desktop. These applications have immediate real-time requirements, because frames need to be delivered to the display at fixed time intervals.2012, Samarjit Chakraborty, Jorg Eberspacher (editors), Advances in Real-Time Systems, page 259

Questions about immediate real-time

What does immediate real-time mean?
Immediate real-time means of a system, processing and transmitting data instantly but with negligible, subsecond latency (usually in milliseconds).
What part of speech is immediate real-time?
Immediate real-time is an adjective.

Words near immediate real-time in the dictionary

  1. immediate families
  2. immediate family
  3. immediate mode
  4. immediate pursuit
  5. immediate pursuits
  6. immediate real-time
  7. immediately
  8. immediateness
  9. immediatenesses
  10. immediatism
  11. immediatist

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